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Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Foundation Inc

To promote youth development by providing funding to programs that support the achievements of youth with limited opportunities and to enable them to develop their talents and pursue their dreams.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$408k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$8.0MYouth Development$1.1MHuman Services$96kPhilanthropy$25kRecreation & Sports$7k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $1,411,230, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,444,030 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,800 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $464k
  • $250k+2 grants · $808k
$11,950
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
XAVIER UNIVERSITY$408,000
BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY$400,000
TEXAS COLLEGE$200,000
FISK UNIVERSITY$200,000
TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY$64,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC$38,150
KINGS BAY NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE$31,100
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MCALLEN INC$11,950
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANIER INC$9,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE$8,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTADESOTO COUNTIES$7,410
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HUNTINGTON VALLEY$7,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE$7,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SCHENECTADY$6,750
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIN COUNTY$6,570
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $208k → 11%SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $196k → 11%MADISON SQUARE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $28k → 17%TEXAS COLLEGE: $208k → 12%CLINTON FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $400k → 12%TALLADEGA COLLEGE: $312k → 18%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $256k → 32%FISK UNIVERSITY: $200k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $43k → 13%KINGS BAY NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE: $33k → 12%ATLANTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $416k → 13%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $408k → 16%DILLARD UNIVERSITY: $312k → 23%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $208k → 11%TEXAS COLLEGE: $200k → 12%BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $208k → 12%TALLADEGA COLLEGE: $208k → 18%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $208k → 32%FISK UNIVERSITY: $104k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $38k → 13%KINGS BAY NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE: $31k → 12%ATLANTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $208k → 13%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $208k → 16%DILLARD UNIVERSITY: $104k → 23%TEXAS COLLEGE: $104k → 12%BETHUNE COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $208k → 12%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $104k → 32%FISK UNIVERSITY: $104k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $35k → 13%ATLANTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $104k → 13%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $104k → 16%TEXAS COLLEGE: $104k → 12%BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $208k → 12%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $64k → 32%FISK UNIVERSITY: $104k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $689k → 13%FISK UNIVERSITY: $104k → 14%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $416k → 13%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: $312k → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $286k → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $208k → 13%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $208k → 13%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: $208k → 13%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $208k → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $104k → 13%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $104k → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $29k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CA
UT
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 24 repeat orgs$563k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
14

Total granted

$8.7M
$554k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+32%

Still filing today

92%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    Spelman College
    4× · 2017–2024 · $936k · revenue +46%
  • BU
    BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2025 · $816k · revenue +7%
  • AT
    Atlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated
    3× · 2017–2024 · $728k · revenue +333% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • BC
    BETHUNE COOKMAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $208k
  • SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $196k · revenue +37%
  • MS
    Madison Square Boys & Girls Club
    one grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +19%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc

The boys & girls clubs of the greater chippewa valley's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

Youth Development
2
The Boys & Girls Clubs Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those most in need of our services, to realize and develop their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens in a global society.

—
3
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc

To inspire and enable youth ages 6 to 18 to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. the boys and girls clubs of greater st. louis provides recreational, athletic and educational facilities for youth in…

Youth Development
4
Boys & Girls Clubs of Bandera County

Enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible & caring citizens.

Recreation & Sports
5
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Carolina

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
6
Boys & Girls Clubs of the San Gorgonio Pass

To inspire and enable all young people especially those in need to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Education
7
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate

The mission of boys and girls clubs of greater washington is to help boys and girls of all backgrounds, especially those who need us most, build confidence, develop character and acquire the skills needed to become productive,…

—
8
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
9
Boys & Girls Clubs of East Alabama

To inspire all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

—
10
Washington State Boys & Girls Clubs Asso

To promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in washington; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys and girls in washington without regard…

Youth Development
11
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia Inc

To enable and inspire all young people, ages five to eighteen, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Youth Development
12
Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley

To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tuskegee University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
30/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Spelman College: $936,000 · EducationSpelman CollegeBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $816,000 · EducationBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITYXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $720,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITYTuskegee University: $632,000 · EducationTuskegee UniversityMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $627,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGEFISK UNIVERSITY: $616,000 · EducationFISK UNIVERSITYTEXAS COLLEGE: $616,000 · EducationTEXAS COLLEGEClark Atlanta University Inc: $520,000 · EducationClark Atlanta University IncTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $416,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITYDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $416,000 · EducationDILLARD UNIVERSITY+1 more: $196,305 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $696,238 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $115,562 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIR…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $56,708 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIR…+10 more: $162,291 · Youth Development+10 moreTalladega College: $520,000 · OtherTalladega C…BETHUNE COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $208,000 · OtherBETHUNE COO…KINGS BAY NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE: $74,100 · OtherKINGS BAY N…Boys and Girls Club of McAllen Inc: $50,095 · Other+8 more: $87,906 · Other+8 moreAtlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated: $728,000 · PhilanthropyBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthUSA Gymnastics: $6,530 · Recreation & Sports
Education$6,511,305Youth Development$1,030,799Other$940,101Philanthropy$728,000Health$25,000Recreation & Sports$6,530

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpelman College: $936,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $816,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAtlanta Technical College Foundation Incorporated: $728,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $720,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $696,238 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTuskegee University: $632,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $627,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY: $616,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS COLLEGE: $616,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTalladega College: $520,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $520,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $416,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $416,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $196,305 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $115,562 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $56,708 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of McAllen Inc: $50,095 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $27,831 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $24,910 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $20,140 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC: $19,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $15,056 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Bisbee Arizona: $13,700 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $12,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMID-PENINSULA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $6,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUSA Gymnastics: $6,530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE EMERALD COAST INC: $5,629 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boys & Girls Clubs of…Boys & Girls Clubs of…Good360Inspire Brands Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Dick's Sporting Goods…Enterprise Holdings F…Charles Schwab Founda…Good Sports IncPublix Super Markets …The Gap FoundationFidelity Foundation
Boys & Girls Clubs of AmericaGA33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Good360 · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charles Schwab Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Gap Foundation · Fidelity Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Bethune-Cookman University: 6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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